Mastodawn

Advice requested! Looking for a simple, affordable, two disk (mirrored) NAS.

main use:
-network file share there via our laptops (Windows, Linux). Just basic drag & drop is fine. Preferably without dedicated software.

-serve media (via our AndroidTV box).

nice to have:
-access to music (.mp3 .flac) on phones (iOs) while outside our own network.

-outside access to files.

User level: am not an idiot but value my time and our money. Am happy with basic products.

#techology #nas #cloud

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Martin Schultz

@Pepijn the big question to your requirements that will matter a lot to the price range : By media I assume you mean video, do you need to transcode that for the clients or is it served as is?

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Pepijn Apr 6

@mshdk Good point. Our current setup is nothing more than a glorified shared drive from Seagate (which they considered "end of life" three months after we bought it..) that has DLNA. And that works good enough.

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Martin Schultz 6d ago

@Pepijn Sounds like you can live without transcoding. I would recommend one of the low end synology products. They do not win price/performance competitions but they have excellent easy to use software, provide software updates for many years, are rock solid and if you need support you can actually raise support tickets to actual humans who will help you.